Tropical Zone Gardening: Restless natives of the Top End, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Staying with the ground orchids, used to be Geodorum neocaledonicum but now is Geodorum densiflorum. Sometimes called "Weed Orchid" here because it readily proliferates the 'official' common name is Nodding Orchid. I have them coming out all over the place but never in the garden which is watered throughout the year. Seems it can't take dry season watering, even though it's range extends into southern Australia where they get rain all year. Like all our ground orchids it's deciduous and is dormant during the dry season. This one is at my place. Hasn't fully opened but they don't open up a lot. Likes a variety of habitats but not extended periods of waterlogging. Grows near my creek where it gets completely flooded for short periods during the set season.

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This message was edited Mar 23, 2009 12:12 PM